What is "firing pins"

Usage examples of "firing pins".

I'd love to see Frank Barry's face when he checks those sub-machine-guns and the Lahtis and finds the firing pins are missing.

Levers pulled back to lie along the stock, the same motion locking the bolts into the lugs at the rear of the chamber and cocking the internal firing pins.

I have taken rifles bearing numbers preceding and following that of a particular one, as well as a large number of other firing pins.

I have tried the rifles and the firing pins, one by one, and after I made microphotographs of the firing pins with special reference to the rounded ends and also photographs of the corresponding rounded depressions in the primers fired by them, it was forced upon me that cartridges fired by each individual firing pin could be positively identified.

Those derringers don't have safety mechanisms and the firing pins are longer than the breech faces.

Finally the warheads themselves were carried off and the firing pins removed.

The little bag containing the firing pins vanished into a Terexian cloak.

Levers pulled back to he along the stock, the same motion locking the bolts into the lugs at the rear of the chamber and cocking the internal firing pins.

He had to wipe them clean, destroy the firing pins and trigger housings and drop them into a sewer.

As he saw me grab for the calculator to figure my thrusts, he brushed my hands aside and laid his on the controls, feeling over the raised indicators with fingers that seemed jointless, then pulled on the firing pins.